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See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.<\/p>\n
By Lauren Gill<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Paper<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Clock it in!<\/p>\n
A penthouse apartment in Dumbo made infamous when a certain Brookly Paper editor filmed a “real estate porn” there nearly seven years ago has finally been sold for a record price — but one that fell $10 million short of the original ask.<\/p>\n
It will never be known if Gersh Kuntman’s viral video inside the three-story apartment atop 1 Main St. had anything to do with the amount of time it took to sell — or caused its price to drop from $25 million — but it didn’t stop a Columbian-born art galley owner form Manhattan to snatch it up for the most anyone has ever paid for a condo in the County of Kings — $15 million.<\/p>\n
The massive 16th floor apartment, which features four working clocks on the windows and a glass elevator, originally hit the market in 2010, but was re-listed at $18 million in 2013 when a new realtor took it on.<\/p>\n
The fancy digs had been in contract since June as the new owner worked with developer Two Trees to modify the apartment to his liking, according to a New York Times report.<\/p>\n
But the story behind the video is just as interesting as the sale.<\/p>\n
Kuntzman posted the video for a short time one day in 2010 before thinking better of it and removing it from The Brooklyn Paper’s website.<\/p>\n
But he didn’t get it down before an enterprising young reporter from Gothamist with a nose for news — Ben Muessig — spotted it, grabbed a screen shot, and link to a YouTube version of the video, revealing it to the world.<\/p>\n
The publicity landed Kuntzman in some hot water when management at The Paper — then owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. — took the editor to task for his decisions about the story — decisions Kuntzman later said he sorely regretted.<\/p>\n
“The first mistake I made was putting it up,” he said recently. “The second was taking it down.”<\/p>\n
Kuntzman left The Brooklyn Paper in 2012 and now works as a “columnist” for the Daily News — and is also co-host of the Brooklyn Paper Radio podcast, on which he will certainly talk about this story.<\/p>\n
It is unclear what became of Ben Muessig.<\/p>\n
The $15 million sale beats the record set by a condo inside Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pierhouse development, which sold for $10.67 million earlier this month, according to the New York Post. That sale topped the $8.1 million paid for a condo at One John St., also in Dumbo.<\/p>\n
Reach reporter Lauren Gill at lgill@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260–2511. Follow her on Twitter @laurenk_gill <\/p>\n
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